Top 10 Reasons Why College Football is Better Than The NFL

The NFL is still being the BIG DOLLAR league that pigskin fans
have grown to hate. Last fall, in that bygone year of 2010,
the NFL's popularity was second to none when it came to any sport,
not just the one played on the gridiron, but any sport in the
United States.

Now? Now, football fans have grown tired of the NFL's
seemingly inability to fix the hole in its 9 billion dollar cruise
ship. College
football, on the other hand, is gearing up for what promises to
be another intense season.

If the news headlines regarding the "No
Fans League" weren't enough to
steer you towards the college game, maybe these 10 reasons will
be.

10 Reasons Why College Football is Better Than the
NFL

Cheerleaders - - Sure, most fellas would put
this group of folks much higher than number 10 on the list, but I'm
approaching forty, happily married, and spend quite a bit of time
watching Elmo and Diego and Dora with my soon to be two year old
son. From a purely aesthetic point of view, cheerleaders are
cool. They dance and holler and they're always happy.
Plus, it's nice to see somebody dancing on my TV screen besides a
red puppet that has a fish for a best friend.

OhioStateand USC
Scandals - - Yeah, I know, it's a negative for OSU and
USC, but for me it's gold! I mean, where else can you get
into ridiculous debates about whether or not the exploitation of
individuals based on some cockamamie scheme of providing a
college education is okay? No where else except in college
football! Without Terrelle Pryor these past few months sure
would have been boring. Dirk's cool, but he's not a good
conversation starter: hard worker, paid his dues, just shoots
hoops, no real issues of note…boring!

SEC - - The conference rocks, okay? You
can be a hater, but Alabama did beat Texas and Auburn
did beat Oregon in the BCS Championship. It's tough
to talk smack about a conference that continually, to my dismay,
puts a beat down on teams from other conferences in the BCS
Championship each and every season.

The Big Ten - - Besides the fact that those
who run the Big Ten can't count, there are 12 teams in the
conference now, there's very little I can say that's bad about the
Big Ten. Joe Pa coaches in the conference, the conference has
its own network, Nebraska moves there this season, Michigan will be
better, and now that the Two T's of Turpitude (Terrelle Pryor and
Jim Tressel) are gone from Ohio State, there's no reason
not to watch the teams in this conference.

A day to get over the hangover - - Monday is a
work day in the United States. That sucks because if you're
an NFL fan and you can't hold your liquor, you've probably gone
through life bouncing around between jobs. Do not discount
the day of reckoning brought upon you by the hangover gods!
If the NFL doesn't return, make Saturday and the college game your
Day of Sloshness and then Sunday your Hangover Day. You might
not go through three jobs during the fall.

No DeMaurice Smith - - The NFLPA leader
deserves some shame for the way that he's been handling this whole
CBA issue. Simply put, I don't believe that he's ever been on
the side of the kickers. The kickers are the guys who make
the league minimum, okay, sometimes slightly more, in the No Fans
League. The kicker doesn't have the ability to negotiate a
bigger contract than a CBA would allow. Why do you think that
Smith was so intent on getting the union dissolved? I'll give
you three reasons: Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and Tom
Brady. Those guys can negotiate their own
deals. Mr. Kicker? Yeah, he'll get screwed again no
matter what awesome deal Smith comes up with for the
players.

Brent Musburger - - You can hate Brent all you
want but the man at least makes it interesting. Sure, he
makes it interesting by using the same old catch phrases that he's
been using for years, but at least he's not only in the booth to
set it up for a color commentator. There's also a drinking
game that has been devised around Brent Musburger. Check it
out here http://bit.ly/BQ5Tv. That
alone gets him on the list and into the Top 5.

Tailgating - - You can live anywhere in the
United States, well, almost anywhere, and get to a college football
game. No, really. And…when you get to that college
football game, if you wear the right colors there will be somebody,
somewhere in the parking lot, or in the case of Pasadena on the
grass outside of the Rose Bowl, willing to give you a bratwurst or
some other grilled delicacy for free. I remember
getting drunk by downing airplane bottles of booze in the parking
lot outside of FedEx Field in D.C. one morning before a Redskins
game. Yeah…not the same.

Roger Goodell doesn't exist in college
football - - I'm not a big fan of the Hammer.
Seriously. Goodell is more like Joe Louis Clark, the teacher
from the film Lean On Me as played by Morgan Freeman than
he is a commissioner of a league with profitable business
entities. I don't understand why 32 grown up
individuals, the owners of each NFL team, can't come up with real
discipline rules and ways of solving issues. What the hell
Roger? And, then, he's washing his hands of the whole CBA
problem and leaving it up to the players and owners to get
through. Whatever, dude.